WELCOME TO THE 53RD WORLD HIT FESTIVAL DRAFT THREAD
Bovingdon, Britonisea
WHF NETWORK - NSWIKI PAGE - OOC THREAD - IC THREAD
THE COMPLETE SCHEDULE
These dates are only provisional and are subject to change;
Sign Ups for the 53rd World Hit Festival Close - 2nd August 2020, 20:00 BST
Draft Thread Closes, 24 hours to make last changes - 9th August 2020, 20:00 BST
The Official Live Draw - 9th August 2019 21:00 BST
Running Order Released - 9th August 2019 23:45 BST
Voting lines Opens, the IC Thread is Available - 11 August 2020, 00:00 BST
The Official Listen-Along (Europe & Americas) - 11 August 2020, 21:00 BST
Voting Lines Closes - 17th August 2020, 07:00 BST (or when I wake up on the 17th tbh)
Results Day 1 - 18th August 2020 Phase 1
Results Day 2 - 19th August 2020, 21:00 GMT Phase 1
Results Day 3 - 20th August 2020 Phase 1
Results Day 4 - 21st January 2020, 21:00 GMT Phase 2
Results Day 5 - 22nd August 2020, 21:00 GMT Phase 2
The World Hit Actual Festival Roleplay: It is my plan to have the World Hit Actual Festival Roleplay w/c 10th August 2020, but if Semis go ahead, I think it'll be much more fun to have it on the week of that.
Winner's Press Conference: After the winner is revealed on the Saturday or Sunday, depending on whether is online or not, I am happy to conduct a Winner's Press Conference
As written by Kalosia for WHF26: The host (Britonisea) reserves the right to make alterations to your RP when copying it over to the IC thread. However, these alterations will be limited to cleaning up the formatting as well as adding (not deleting) RP regarding the situation in the arena (i.e. how the audience reacted). Substantial/major alterations will not be made without written permission, and any further changes to an entry within the IC thread will only be done upon written request by the user behind it, and with host discretion. This also includes audience reactions at the end of the entry...
Helping Your Host: I am most probably going to use my own formatting for everybody's entry, to make it look uniform, which has been done in other editions, my previous edition of hosting included. I would appreciate if you could keep your formatting of your entry very simple (just text and the 'BOX' tag would be fantastic, no need for colours, bold, italics and underlining - unless they are keys or backing singers etc). You can align everything to the centre if you want to keep in neat, but it would help me very much to keep it quite minimalist. If you don't though, I'll get over it but don't blame me if your postcard comes out blurry xx
PLEASE LEAVE TRANSLATIONS AT THE END OF YOUR POST UNDER A SINGLE SPOILERS. It incredibly slows down the process of making all entries uniform. It really does.
WIP Entries: It would also help a lot if you put a "WIP" or Work In Progress sign somewhere obvious, preferably in the subject or at the top of your post if you don't want me to notice that as finished. All completed entries will be considered final when the Voting Lines open. In the case there are s*mi fin@ls, you can make edits to your entries, but this will be touched on if that time comes (which it might not).
What is a Complete Entry?: A complete entry, by technical definition, is an entry on the draft thread with a usable tune and a complete set of lyrics (all stanzas, verses, and etc. covered). Which means, I can transfer a post with just pure lyrics onto the IC thread and mark it as a complete entry. However, I encourage all nations to put in RP to your entries. It makes the entry look far more complete than just lyrics on the page, and while it won't guarantee higher points, it will signal to the WHF community that you are putting in effort than just beyond lyrics. Many people grade RP so really go for it, for me! There will be RP bonuses from me and my THREE nations competing which will be discussed in the next post.
Headers: While you're free to use whatever header you see fit, you might miss some information that will be needed when transferring your entry over to the OOC thread. This edition, I'm asking for loads of information. It's up to you how in depth you want to go with it, but of course, if you do decide to go for it, I will be very happy to sling you a couple of bonus points. The Official Template for the Header is below and this is the format that I will use regardless of whatever header you use so, um, you might as well use it!
Feel free to change the colour of the number/nation (ie 14 in the example) to a colour your nation identifies with. If you're unfun or don't use dancers/backing singer, please write N/A or leave it blank and I will get rid of it when moving it to the IC thread.
OFFICIAL HEADER:
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[align=center][blocktext][box][size=250][b]XX[/b][/size]
[size=200][color=gold][b]NATION_NAME[/b][/color]
[color=#0070b8][b]ARTIST_NAME - "SONG_TITLE"[/b][/color][/size]
[b]Language(s):[/b] LANGUAGE_HERE
[b]Title Transcription:[/b] TRANSCRIPTION_HERE
[b]Title Translation:[/b] TITLE_IN_ENGLISH_HERE
[b]Tune:[/b] [url=YOUTUBE_LINK]RL_ARTIST - RL_TUNE[/url][hr][/hr][color=#858282][b][u]Entry Specifics[/u][/b]
[b]Trigramme:[/b] YOUR_3_LETTER_TRIGRAMME_HERE
[b]Lyrics:[/b] LYRICISTS_HERE
[b]Music:[/b] MUSICIANS_HERE
[b]Backing Dancers:[/b] DANCERS_HERE (Feel free to use the ones provided on the OP for no extra cost!)
[b]Backing Singers:[/b] SINGERS_HERE (Feel free to use the ones provided on the OP for no extra cost!)[/box][/color][/blocktext][/align]
I will reach out to people who have expressed interest in participating at the World Hit Festival by sending them a DM closer to the deadline if they didn't post. It might be a great idea to post on the Draft Thread with your header so you remember to fill out your entry. You have more than two weeks to do so (thanks to the two day reverse schedule I have given you guys - this actually might be a thing going forward so we have three weekends to complete entries). The deadline is the 9th August 2020, 20:00 BST - please join me on the discord channel for the live draw to find out where your nation will perform.
The next post will outline some specifics about the stage and RP opportunities you can add into your entry to flesh it out. Please do have fun and unleash your creativity, I love reading through it all!